...left for the Caucasus after the Menshevik Adrianov in order to arrange immediately upon arrival a session of the Central Committee in Russia. The session did not take place, as Nogin, having noticed surveillance of himself, concealed himself from Tula for some time.

8 The reference is to a campaign for the convocation of an allegedly "all-party" conference, initiated in the pages of *Viennese Pravda* (see No. 18-19 article "For an All-Party Conference"); the campaign subsequently led to the convocation of an anti-party conference of liquidators in Vienna in August 1912.